Principles of Power: Women Superintendents

Women who seek to be school superintendents or who want to improve their chances for success in the superintendency can clearly benefit from the insights and cultural wisdom of women who have attained the position. Principles of Power shares perspectives from twelve successful women superintendents and puts them in a cultural context that highlights what they can teach us about their methods for success.

To illustrate the underlying behaviors that helped them succeed, Brunner uses as a framework the system of beliefs gathered by Carlos Castaneda from Yaqui Indian warrior training. Castaneda calls this system the "riddle of the heart". To understand the riddle of the heart, women must be able to simultaneously comprehend and use two different perceptions of the world: that which is and that which is becoming. To be able to solve the riddle, warriors develop mind set and a discipline that allow them to get the best out of any conceivable situation.

C. Cryss Brunner is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Foreword

ix

Charol Shakeshaft

Acknowledgments

xvii

Part One Mystery: Intangible Insights

Mystery and Metaphor: Introduction to Part 1

3

(6)

Raymond M. Olderman

Gathering Intangible Data: The Women Superintendents and the Assembly

9

(8)

Embodying Intangible Data: The Women as Warriors

17

(10)

Part Two Metaphor: Articulating Intangibles

The Warrior's Path: The Riddle of the Heart and the Seven Principles of Power

27

(12)

Principle One: Knowing the Battleground

39

(20)

Principle Two: Discarding the Unnecessary

59

(16)

Principle Three: Choosing Battles

75

(8)

Principle Four: Taking Risks

83

(18)

Principle Five: Seeking Retreat

101

(12)

Principle Six: Compressing Time

113

(20)

Principle Seven: Exercising Power

133

(22)

Part Three Motion: Intangibles in Action

Impeccable Practice: Three Results

155

(4)

First Result: Laughing at Self

159

(8)

Second Result: Patience Without Fretting

167

(8)

Third Result: Improvisation

175

(6)

Castaneda and Me

181

(2)

About the Author

183

(2)

Notes

185

(2)

References

187

(12)

Index

199

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Principles of Power: Women Superintendents and the Riddle of the Heart

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